Also, not all LEGO pieces dye equally. Ochre Jelly shows how different pieces take shorter amounts of time to reach a dark color (15:13). In contrast, he claims the dye didn't work on minifigure hands at all.
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Armed with your building instructions and a little creativity, you're just a few steps away from a. Ever wish you could change the color of a Lego brick? The best way of recoloring Lego pieces is by getting new pieces in the colors you want, not by painting them.
Recoloring Legos: I recently got the 8070 supercar Lego set and tried to put a convertible top on it. Unfortunately, I didn't have the pieces I needed in red (the color of the car) and so I wanted to recolor them. I tried many ways, but spraypaint works best.
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I found this technique from a tutorial on dyeing key caps but adjusted it for lego. I also want to mention that there are some other types of plastics that Lego uses (I.E. the scarf piece, leaves, and hands) that I haven't figured out how to dye yet.
But I hope this helps. Lego is made from ABS, so if you have light colored pieces, you could dye them darker with a dye meant for synthetic material (Rit Dyemore or iDye Poly might work) but it will be unpredictable in terms of the end result.